Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 24
Listening
Misc
100
The Modernist era in music and art challenged listener notions of "ugly" and "beautiful," and, in effect, made artistic expression dependent on neither one for validity. Name a musical composer who demonstrated this trend.
Stravinsky, Ives, Copland
100
An abstract style of Modernist painting emerged in Europe around 1910. What was it called?
Cubism
100
Name a female composer noted in Chapter 24 who is from New England, and who is the only woman named on the famed granite wall of composers at the Hatch Shell in Boston.
Amy Beach (1867-1944) (Amy Marcy Cheney)
100
What composer was the inspiration for Zwilich's Concerto Grosso 1985?
G. F. Handel
100
What was the audience reception like in the Rite of Spring premiere?
Riots, police brought in for control
200
While the large symphony orchestra was still an option to Modernists and Post-Modernists as in former eras, cite an example of performing media that might demonstrate the newer trends of the era.
smaller ensembles (chamber), electronic synthesizer/keyboards, or mixed media
200
Stravinsky lived in three different countries to obviate the devastating effects of world war. The US was one, name one other.
Switzerland, France
200
In what state was Charles Ives born and educated?
CT
200
Hoe Down comes from what ballet by Copland?
Rodeo
200
What happens to the main female character in Rite of Spring?
She is sacrificed to the god of Fertility
300
The Modernist era in music and art challenged listener notions of "ugly" and "beautiful," and, in effect, made artistic expression dependent on neither one for validity. Name a visual artist who demonstrated this trend.
Picasso
300
Stravinsky favored a compositional technique comparable to the "double exposure" in photography, where two unrelated images are juxtaposed. Explain the musical adaptation of this.
Contrasting rhythms, meters, harmonies are used simultaneously
300
In 1919, blackface vaudevillian Al Jolson vaulted the career of this composer by using one of his songs in a show. Who was the composer?
George Gershwin 1898-1937
300
Ives' orchestral piece, Three Places in New England (1914) references an historical figure from the Revolutionary War. What was his name?
General Israel Putnam
300
Name one musical theme in Ives's Putnam's Camp?
British Quick Step, British Grenadiers, Battle Cry of Freedom, Star Spangled Banner
400
Cite an example of the devastation brought to Europe by WW I.
Libraries, museums, concert halls destroyed; many perished including musicians, many fled to neutral countries
400
What was the name of the movement from the Rite of Spring that was examined in class?
Sacrificial Dance
400
While born in Brooklyn, NY (like Bernie Sanders), where did Aaron Copland receive his extensive musical training at age 20?
Paris, France
400
What happened to Charlie Rutledge in the Ives song with piano?
His horse fell on top of him - bad day
400
A motivated, enthusiastic young musician, Gershwin quit high school for this job. What was it?
a song plugger for Remick Music Company
500
"Scenes From Pagan Russia" is the subtitle to what great Modernist work?
Rite of Spring, 1913
500
Who was the architect of the Ballet Russes?
Diaghilev
500
What two nations became the first "world communities" as a result of immigration patterns in the 20 C?
US and Canada
500
Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, a folk opera, utilizes African American dialect patterns studied by the composer and his brother, Ira. Where were these dialects preserved?
African American Gullah communities, islands off the coast of South Carolina
500
Copland was a student of Nadia Boulanger, who was his most famous student?
Leonard Bernstien
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